PhD Student

Education: B.A, African American Studies,University of California, Berkeley.,
Minor in Education, Graduate School of Education, University of California, Berkeley.

Interests: Anthropological, sociological, educational, psychoanalytical, and archival and historical research methodologies to study the lived experiences of Black communities, particularly in low-income neighborhoods, in the United States.

PhD Student

Education: M.A., University of Texas at Austin,
B.A., University of California, Davis

Interests: Representations of blackness in popular culture. Gender and sexuality. Consumption theory. Visual theory. The Black quotidian/everyday. Television and film. Respectability politics. The History of Black Cartoons.

PhD Student

Education: M.A., African American Studies, Northwestern University; MS.Ed., Special Education, Hunter College (CUNY),
M.A., Latin American Studies, The University of New Mexico, B.A., History, St. John's University

Interests: Blackness and Indigeneity in Central America’s Caribbean Coasts; Afro-Latinos in the United States; Histories and ethnographies of the African Diaspora in Latin America and the Caribbean, Black Feminist & Black Queer Theory, Garifuna Transnational Migrations, Afro-Latino Studies, and U.S. Black Popular Culture